CHAPTER 745: 685 PREMEDITATION 3

The gathering at the Golden Tree did not last long, and soon after, violent tremors came one after another from beyond the layered golden canopy.

The branches swayed and the leaves rubbed against each other, producing a massive rustling sound.

"It’s here!" Li Chengyi’s heart tightened as he sensed the huge eddies of presence that kept emerging outside.

Those were the fluctuations of the Omniscients’ presence.

One presence after another released infinite amounts of energy ripples into the outside world.

It was only because the Omniscients had infinite energy that they could afford such extravagance.

These so-called whirlpools were all furiously spewing vast amounts of power from within to the outside.

If they did not do so, they could not avoid the myriad black cracks that filled the sky.

"Tian Qingzi, what do you mean by this!? Have you asked us before shaking the foundations of all things!??"

A deep and resonant voice came in from outside the canopy.

"Try and stop me if you can," Tian Qingzi’s enormous face remained unchanged.

His visage slowly sunk in and infused into the giant tree’s surface before vanishing out of sight.

He completely disregarded the questions posed by the Omniscients outside.

Just when Li Chengyi and the others were eagerly watching.

"Go!"

Suddenly, Tian Xuanzi’s voice echoed in his heart.

He tensed up, and his entire being was enveloped in an immense, boundless force, like an insect trapped in a massive bubble, he rapidly took flight, soaring into the sky.

Then the colors around him began to change swiftly.

It was like a palette of spilled paint, mixing together, spinning rapidly, stirring violently.

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, and even many other intermediate colors, all stirred wildly, faster and faster, more and more intense.

"I have left a mark on your jade pendant. When you find a clue, you may notify your master through the mark," Tian Xuanzi’s voice entered Li Chengyi’s mind.

"Yes!" Li Chengyi’s spirit refocused, hastily responding.

"Go, and do not disappoint me," Tian Xuanzi’s voice gradually faded.

Li Chengyi’s heart tightened again.

The rate at which the surrounding colors changed accelerated once more.

In the end, they almost turned into a flicker.

Countless colors turned into a flashing colored light curtain, surrounding him from all directions.

With every moment, countless immeasurable images and shadows flashed by.

Time slowly passed by.

His own time was constantly changing, flowing...

No one knew how much time had passed...

Click!

Suddenly, everything came to a standstill.

Everything before his eyes returned to a normal sight.

The bustling noise of traffic and pedestrians filled his ears.

Li Chengyi came to his senses and suddenly found himself standing on a busy and lively street.

People crowded around, car lights streaked by, and various advertisements on the high rise buildings flashed rapidly, with music and advertorial voices incessant.

Hum.

A plane quietly passed through the clouds overhead, its sonic vibrations perceptible only to him.

Even higher up, space held the giant White Star, which still looked the same, its surface resembling a honeycomb from which numerous trade ships flew out, moving between Earth and Moon.

Li Chengyi lowered his head and saw that he was still in his Daoist robe, his body unchanged.

’This is Earth-Moon... the same Earth-Moon where nothing ever happened...’

He recalled the memory from when he first crossed over to this world.

His mind moved.

A faint white glow spread from his body, instantly dissolving into the air around him.

This was a simple spell that reduced his presence to the greatest extent.

For Li Chengyi, now widely versed in a plethora of spells, such a trick was easily executed.

Martial arts, spells, cultivation, death qi, forbidden knowledge, a vast array of ways and techniques, now converged into one, elevating his thinking to an extremely high level.

Together with a consciousness power calculation capability comparable to the most advanced supercomputers of top technological civilizations, he could effortlessly apply any feasible spells he had not studied before.

Observing the passersby of Earth-Moon.

Li Chengyi walked leisurely along the sidewalk.

His gaze swept over the transparent glass of a shop, looking at the portable satellite TV screen inside.

A news anchor, dressed in a deep purple women’s suit, was solemnly reporting international news.

The ticker news on the lower part of the screen clearly displayed the current time: May of 3224.

’Is this... the time when I first came to this world...?’

Li Chengyi instantly realized.

Standing in the street, he fell into silence.

He had not expected to actually return to this earliest epoch.

’Now that I am indestructible and one with Primal Chaos, there should be no traces of my existence in history... But since my master said to investigate, then...’

Li Chengyi thought to himself, looked around, and confirmed that he was indeed standing in the central area of Suiyang City on Earth-Moon.

Off to the right front, a silver building stood out among the surrounding grey-white buildings, with a large red sign on top: New Century Life Leisure Plaza.

’Not long from now, Xindela will come to rent this place and set up a company, if nothing goes wrong...’

"But now that I’m gone, whether that company will exist here remains to be seen..."

Li Chengyi did not go there to check, but a mere flicker of his consciousness revealed no trace or aura of Xindela inside the building.

He turned around and, without using instantaneous movement, walked quickly toward the community where his home was located, just like an ordinary person.

The community where Li Chengyi lived was named Happiness Community.

A name with a traditional Earth-Moon style.

More than ten minutes later.

Li Chengyi slowed down and stood again in front of the entrance gate to the community.

He glanced at the four large characters that read "Happiness Community" and then at the wild chrysanthemums blooming inside, little white and yellow flowers sprinkled everywhere like stars.

’This is where it all began...’

His expression unchanged and making himself as unnoticeable as possible, the doorman didn’t detect his entry at all.

Walking into the community and down the somewhat rugged and unmaintained road.

Soon, Li Chengyi arrived at the staircase entrance of his building, entered the familiar doorway, and headed up the stairs.

Back in front of his own home.

He gently reached out, touching the anti-theft door.

Click.

A soft sound, and the door opened.

Li Chengyi calmly stepped inside, where a tall and sinister-looking woman sat in the living room, none other than Li Chengjiu.

She was engrossed in a book, dressed in a simple pink and white fluffy pajama, the cuffs clearly stained dark.

At this time, she had not yet endured the beatings from her brother, so her temper should still be quite fiery.

Luckily, she was the only one at home.

Li Chengyi’s entrance went unnoticed, the anti-theft door having opened and then silently closing on its own.

He stood in the living room, quietly observing Li Chengjiu for a while before turning and heading toward the room where he used to live.

Click.

The room’s door opened.

He slowly entered.

Inside was a dim room filled with boxes of miscellaneous items.

Milky white plastic boxes were stacked up, some high, some low.

’Not even a bed... It seems that my presence here has indeed naturally been erased...’ Li Chengyi thought, feeling somewhat helplessly despondent.

He quickly regained his composure and roamed around the room. The already small room was made even more cramped with all the clutter occupying most of the space, making it difficult to move around.

In less than ten seconds, he thoroughly inspected the entire room.

Eventually, he returned to the room’s doorway.

Grasping the doorknob with his hand.

He stood there quietly, unmoving, glancing sideways at the electronic calendar on the wall.

’It was on this very night that I, in this room, first encountered other minuscule blind spots and was then pulled into them, beginning to be forced onto the path of activating the Evil Flower.’

The thought crossed his mind.

’So what about now?’

’In this history where I have completely retracted all my selves, will that minuscule blind spot in the parking garage still appear?’

He was curious.

If everything went as expected, this was the origin of it all.

But what would the world, this Black Sea, use to fill the void when the starting point no longer included him?

Li Chengyi waited quietly, his heart somewhat anxious, but filled mostly with anticipation.

He stood there, not moving an inch.

The calendar clock on the wall spun round and round...

The sky outside gradually darkened.

From the living room outside, the sound of his father Li Zhao and his mother Feng Yurong coming home and closing the door was heard.

Everything was so familiar, clear, and real.

Soon, the sound of washing vegetables and cooking mixed with the incessant chatter of family members. Li Chengjiu’s complaints and her loud demands for money followed.

Li Chengyi still remembered lying in this room at that time, in his own bed, quietly listening to the sounds outside.

It was on this night that he crossed over into Li Chengyi’s body...

Because of that black flower...

The sky outside grew even more somber.

Li Chengyi waited quietly... just waiting...

He too was eager to see how his original self came to this world.

Time slowly passed, and the ticking of the calendar clock on the wall continued unceasingly.

In the community, cars returning from work drove by one after another. Their headlight beams filtered through the glass window, sweeping across the ceiling of the room.

Shik!

At that moment, suddenly, a flicker of black light passed by in the corner of the room where the bed should have been.

Li Chengyi’s spirits were instantly lifted as he turned to look in the direction where the black light had flashed.

’Is it the Evil Flower!?’ he quickly realized.

’No! There’s no presence of the Evil Flower, it’s purely a temporal fluctuation!’

He swiftly walked over to the spot where the black light had passed and inspected it carefully.

Soon, he caught a barely discernible trace that was still fading, with his vast consciousness power seizing it instantly.

’This is it!’ Li Chengyi felt a rush of elation.

Sigh...

Suddenly, a deep sigh came from behind him.

Someone was there!? There was someone behind him!? And he hadn’t noticed!?!

Li Chengyi’s hair stood on end as he quickly turned around, his consciousness power having completely failed to detect the other’s presence.

If the other party had directly attacked him...

But as he turned around, he froze.

In the cramped room, on the only space left on the floor, stood a purple-black suit of armor, crystal-like and ferocious, as if it had always been there.